dentelle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French dentelle.

Noun

dentelle (plural dentelles)

  1. (bookbinding) An ornamental tooling like lace.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dentelle in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)


French

Etymology

From dent + -elle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɑ̃.tɛl/
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Noun

dentelle f (plural dentelles)

  1. lace

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